Listens to told story without props| X| | Answers questions when asked and is able to reason| Understands ordinal concepts of first, second, last etc.| X| | Was read the story of the hungry caterpillar and was able to give sequence of food the caterpillar ate in correct order.| Speech/language development |

Skill| Completed| Not Yet Completed| Comments| Relays messages correctly| | X| During a game of “pass the message along’ he was unable to pass the correct message with repetition.| Can listen without interrupting| | X| No. Asks questions constantly| Asks about meaning of new words| X| | Relates to words he already knows| Uses adult like sentences| | | Language errors present| Can recite own name and personal details| X| | |

Rating Scale
Rating Key
1= Poor or None. The indicator is seldom or never done by the child ( Not at all). 2=Attempted.
3= Moderately. It is not regular or frequent (sometimes)
4= Good. (most of the time)
5= Excellent. Does all the time or does the task well.

Experiment| Results|| Child A| Child B| Conservation of Numbers- I placed a row of small bubble gums in front of the child and asked him (both are male) to make another row the same as the first one. After asking the child to exist the room, I then spreaded out the row of gum and the child if there were still the same numbers of gums as there were before. (without counting them)| They were more gums than before.| There were more gums than before| Conservation of Length- Both children are shown two...

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